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Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Intellectual Entrepreneurs
Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.
Anatomy as Entertainment
An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
What This Country Needs
David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.
by David Warsh
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Recent books with Harvard connections
Radio Wits
Three Harvard graduates help create the weekly humor of NPR’s Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!
by Craig Lambert
Sharks, Fiction, and Wall Street
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
by Craig Lambert
The Son Also Rises
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Again, A Dangerous Art
Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57
by Adam Kirsch